gave employees better tools to interact with one another. On the suggestion of one worker, he signed the company up for Yammer, a site for short messages similar to Twitter that would be visible only to colleagues. couple of observations: - 2,000 people using Yammer out of 15,000 is a good start. His challenge? MORE >>

Let me help the non-Dutchies: She talks about 4 important insights they gained from the market and the twittercoaches: Make use of known tooling, for instance Twitter or Yammer in organization where there are experiences with Yammer. Find the right mix between participants, tooling and the dynamics you want to stimulate. MORE >>

The key points I covered: we can use social media internally to distribute (broadcast) our own training material, or we can use community tools to create the material right through to peer to peer training. Yammer for adhoc training and Q&A. Here are the slides for them. Training departments and social media. All the ables. MORE >>

The usefulness of Twitter continues to be debated. Last week, George Packer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, wrote that he wants to yell Stop every time he hears about Twitter.  With constant updates, Twitter only adds to the overwhelming amount of information we receive every day, according to Mr. Packer. MORE >>

Or rather, Yammer! Online community and collaboration tools have come a very long way since IRCs, usenet and Delphi ruled the Internet. As important as Yammer’s recent acquisition by Microsoft might be to the Wall Street crowd, the impact of this platform and similar tools on the business culture of organizations will be even greater. MORE >>